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But Swinnerton with his counter-scheme interested a lot of other capital, and through some of the men he got in with him he got the ear of some of the higher-ups on the P. C. & W. He even got his scheme into the private office of the president, and from the president word ran down to Gray. I think even Gray began then to get shaky in the knees.
"Better have him in," said Grady, and doubled up the list and slipped it into his pocket. Parks came in looking decidedly shaky; but answered Grady's questions clearly and concisely. He told first of the events of the afternoon, and then passed on to the evening. "Mr. Vantine had dinner at home, sir," he said. "It was served, I think, at seven o'clock.
This presumably brilliant assemblage of the financial weight and intelligence of the city appeared as solemn as owls under the pressure of a rumored impending financial crisis. Before Arneel's appearance there was a perfect buzz of minor financial gossip, such as: "You don't say?" "Is it as serious as that?" "I knew things were pretty shaky, but I was by no means certain how shaky."
Shelton made room, and the old fellow took the vacant place. "You'll excuse me, sir, I'm sure," he said in shaky tones, and snatching at his battered hat; "I see you was a gentleman" and lovingly he dwelt upon the word "would n't disturb you for the world. I'm not used to being out at night, and the seats do get so full. Old age must lean on something; you'll excuse me, sir, I 'm sure."
"Oh, if you please, Miss Coleman, pray say nothing about it, pray do not mention it to your father; I do not know what the consequences will be; I really meant nothing; I really did not" which was entirely true. "You who propose to teach religion to people! I ought to stop you; but no, I will not be dragged into the mud." A sudden thought struck her. He was shaky, and was holding on by the table.
Banneker returned from that interview with a map upon which had been scrawled a few words in shaky, scholarly writing. "But one doesn't say it's safe, mind you," had warned the shell of Lionel Streatham in his husky pipe. "It's only as a sporting offer that one would touch it. And the courses may have changed in seven years."
She surmised preparations for a hasty marriage how hasty she dared not think. And she guessed, too, the hopeless predicament of Nikky Larisch. She sat and stared ahead. During the afternoon came a package, rather unskillfully tied with a gilt cord. Opening it, the Countess disclosed a glove-box of wood, with a design of rather shaky violets burnt into the cover.
But when my second brother was going to be born by-and-by, "this," says M. R. F., "is a little pillar of the church." WAS born, and became a pillar of the church; a very shaky one. My third brother appeared, considerably in advance of his engagement to my mother; but M. R. F., not at all put out by surprise, instantly declared him a Circumnavigator.
But they kept on coming, in spite of their lack of time and Hogarty's calm refusal to consider their arguments some of the younger men because they really did appreciate the sensation of flexible muscles sliding beneath a smooth skin, some of them merely because they liked to hear Hogarty's fluently picturesque profanity, always couched in the most delightfully modulated of English, when the activity of a particularly giddy week-end brought them back a little too shaky of hand, a little too brilliant of eye and a trifle jumpy as to pulse.
This was strange in itself, but it was not the strangest thing about this letter. The strangest thing was a word written in a shaky cramped hand on the back of the sheet: the letters huddled together: "Come!" I would have believed my uncle justified in his note. It was a long journey. I had great difficulty to find anyone to take me out from the railway station.
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